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Shane McNamee, MD serves as chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Richmond VAMC and has worked extensively on the development and implementation of the Polytrauma System of Care in the Veterans Health Administration.

While touring the facility, they met with Dr. Shane McNamee, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Department of Veterans Affairs, who is leading a program designed to accelerate rehabilitation and job placement for wounded veterans.

Shane McNamee, MDMedical Director General Inpatient Rehabilitation & Chief PM&R ServiceRichmond VAMC
• Describe potential impacts of TBI throughout modern combat history
• Provide an over view of systems of care within the DoD and VHA for
those who have sustained TBI

Dr Shane McNamee, from Cleveland Ohio, heads a rehab team at VA hospital in Richmond Virginia - taking the rehabilitation of wounded military to new dimensions of matching up realities of each individual with their rehabilitation.

He gave a report to Congress about this work that you can view on other page.

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Dr. Shane McNamee

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"I remember telling [Ricard] he was going to walk off the unit," said Dr. Shane McNamee, medical director of McGuire's polytrauma rehabilitation center.

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To help the men and women, "you develop that narrative of healing," McNamee said.
That means pointing out small changes that over time add up to big change.
That means helping them see themselves differently and in a new reality, maybe with limitations.

"We get very complex patients and we slowly try to turn them back into people," McNamee said.
"You work on what their personal motivations are."

In Ricard's case, McNamee could see that it was getting back to work and his family.

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McNamee, the center's medical director, describes it as maturing.

An emerging-consciousness program is focused on helping people in a minimally responsive, "near coma" state after suffering a severe head injury.

"We bring people in for a whole array of interventions.
We try to help them recover more rapidly," McNamee said.

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We evaluate them, treat them and start to figure out strategies to help them move past the injuries they've sustained," McNamee said.